The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

Adam Houck. of Columbus. o., a German
pudder, aged forty five. fatally shot his wife last
night He was arrested.
DR.. MeGlynn has entirely recovered from his
late illness, ans will probably take part in the
parade on ST. Patrick's day in New York City
George Simon, thirteen-year-old boy, was
found, Saturday night hanging from .joist in
the cellar Of his home, No. 1908 Gerard street,
Philadelphia.
John Fink, aged thirty.four, Of Columbia,
Tenn. was struck by train on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad, half mile above that town, on Sat
urday. and his head decapitated.
At Providence on Saturday. George Atwood,
aged twenty-five, (aborer and unmarried, while
crossing the tracks of the New York Providence
& Boston railroad. was run over by freight
train and killed.
Thos w. Turner, storekeeper for a Panama
dredging company, arrived at New York from
the isthmus on Feb 2 He was again seen on
Feb. II. but not since. He had about 81 400 with
him. His home is in Toronto, Ont.
Dominick Gray, of New York, a hod-carrier,
while suffering from delirium tremens, Friday
night, attempted to beat out the brains OF his
wife and seven months old daughter with an
iron pot The woman and infant are no W lying
in Roosevelt Hospital, and the child cannot re-
cover. Gray is In custody.
Judgment was given In the High Court at
Toronto, Canada, on Saturday, ordering the ex-
tradition of DR.. Weir, on the ground that there
handed over to the Michigan authorities. He is
charged with criminally assaulting young girl
while she was lying i'll with typhoid fever in a
hospital, thereby causing her death.
There is great excitement at Powhatan, Ark !,
over the death Of Mrs. VIM. McLaufhlin, whose
dead body was found in a creek near her house.
AT first it was supposed to be q case of suicide,
but later developments show that it was mur-
der. The body was found in three feet of water,
and it was apparent that Mrs. MCLAUGHLIN was
killed while drawing water from the creek.
Obadiah Wheelock, wealthy and eccentric
old man. who lived at No. 1112 Filbert street,
Philadelphia. hanged himself, Saturday after
noon, in the attic of his house. A note left on
a table was marked "a o'clock P. NJ and said
that his only reason for taking his life was i'll
health, concluding with a farewell to all his
friends. Wheelock was bachelor, seventy five
years of age, and was worth $50, 600.
The iron works of W. D. Wood & Co., at Nc.
Keesport Pa, have been closed down, and the
employs discharged. because they joined e
Amalgamated Association. The firm will make
an effort to secure men to operate their mill, but
the discharged employees claim they will be un.
able to do A lively time is expected if an at
tempt is made TO resume with non-union work
men. The works employ several hundred men.
The police at Onehundred- and twenty sixth
street. New York, report that Saturday
night g. Baudais. aged forty five years, of Fort
Lee, N. j.; VIM. Kiren, aged twenty eight
years, and Pat Smith, aged thirty years, started
| from the foot of West One hundred and twenty
| fifth street to to Fort Lee Nothing has
| been seen of them since Yesterday, further ul
the riven, a boat with minnie L." painted upor
| whether it Was used by the three men referred